INTRODUCTIONS.
CHARLIE HOLLAND, at your service. A well-dressed, well-mannered, pleasant-faced boy. You feel sure you would like him? Everybody who sees him feels just so.
“His mother must be proud of him,” is a sentence often on people’s lips. Look at him now, as he lifts his hat politely, in answer to a call from an open window.
“Charlie,” says the voice, “I wonder if I could get you to mail this letter for me? Are you going near the post-office?”
“Near enough to be able to serve you, Mrs. Hampstead,” says the polite voice. “I will do it with pleasure.”
“I shall be very much obliged, Charlie, but I wouldn’t want to make you late at school on that account.”
“Oh! no danger at all, Mrs. Hampstead. It will not take two minutes to dash around the corner to the office.” And, as he receives the letter, his hat is again lifted politely.
“What a perfect little gentleman Charlie Holland is,” says Mrs. Hampstead to her sister, as the window closes. “Always so obliging; he acts as though it was a pleasure to him to do a kindness.”